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Home»World»“I will stand by South-Asian community if elected”: assures VP candidate Kamala Harris
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“I will stand by South-Asian community if elected”: assures VP candidate Kamala Harris

Our CorrespondentBy Our CorrespondentAugust 17, 202099 Comments3 Mins Read
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Then Vice President Joe Biden talks with Sen. Kamala Harris and her aunt, Sarala Gopalan, during a swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol on Jan. 3, 2016. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
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Democrats VP candidate Kamala Harris assured she will stand before South-Asian community if being elected

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris, during her maiden address to the Indian-American community, reflected on her proud Indian heritage and recalled how her mother always wanted to instill in her a “love permanently idli”.

Harris, 55, who is that the first black to be selected as a vice-presidential candidate of a serious party, took a visit down the memory lane, mentioning her “long walks” in Madras (now Chennai) together with her grandfather who would tell her about the “heroes” liable for the birth of the world’s largest democracy.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, 77, scripted history by selecting Harris, an Indian-American and an African-American, as his campaigner within the presidential election on November 3.

Born to a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, California senator Harris, if elected, would be second in line of succession after Biden.

“Today on Assumption , 2020. I stand before you because the first candidate for vice chairman of the us of South Asian descent,” Harris said in her address organised by Indians for Biden National Council.

Joined by Biden, she greeted Indian Americans on the occasion of India’s Independence Day .

“To the people of India and to Indian Americans all across the US, i would like to wish you a cheerful Indian Independence Day . On Assumption , 1947, men and ladies everywhere India rejoiced within the declaration of the independence of the country of India,” Harris said during the virtual inaugural meet of the council.

Harris was born on October 20 in 1964, at Oakland in California. Her mother Shyamala Gopalan migrated to the US from Tamil Nadu in India, while her father, Donald J Harris, moved to the US from Jamaica.

“When my mother, Shyamala stepped off the plane in California as 19 years old, she did not have much within the way of belongings. But she carried together with her lessons from back home, including ones she learned from her parents, my grandmother Rajan, and her father, my grandfather P V Gopalan. They taught her that once you see injustice within the world, you’ve got an obligation to try to to something about it,” Harris said.

“Which is what inspired my mother to march and shout on the streets of Oakland, at the peak of the civil rights movement, a movement where leaders including Dr Luther King Jr, were themselves inspired by the non-violent activism of Gandhi ,” she said.

Harris said it had been during those protests that her mother met her father. The rest, as they assert , is history, she said.

“Growing up, my mother would take my sister Maya and me back to what was then called Madras because she wanted us to know where she had come from and where we had ancestry. And in fact , she always wanted to instill in us, a love of excellent idli,” Harris said.

 

“In Madras i might continue long walks with my grandfather, who at that time was retired. we might take morning walks where I’d hold his hand and he would tell me about the heroes who are liable for the birth of the world’s biggest democracy. He would explain that it’s on us to select up where they left off. Those lessons are an enormous reason why i’m who i’m today, Harris said explaining the deep influence of the Indian heritage on her.

“Our community is bound together by such a lot quite our shared history and culture,” she said.

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